Policy dialogue in ICT to an Upper level
for Reinforced EU-EECA Cooperation
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International cooperation support action funded within ICT
Theme of the FP7 “COOPERATION” Programme
Start: 01/12/2011
Duration: 30 months
Target groups: national ICT stakeholders, ICT R&D organizations
and companies
Target countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
The overall aim is to engage the EU and EECA stakeholders from
across research, academia, industries, government and civil
society to enrich and support the EU-EECA ICT Policy Dialogue,
and to reinforce strategic partnerships between EU and EECA ICT
organizations.
Date, place
Consortium
inno TSD, France (Coordinator)
Q-PLAN NORTH GREECE LTD, Greece
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National
Academy of Sciences, Armenia
Regional Innovative Technologies Academy, Azerbaijan
Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of
Scientific and Technical Sphere, Belarus
Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association,
Georgia
National Agency for Technological Development, Kazakhstan
Eurasian Institute of International Relations, Kyrgyzstan
Center for International Projects, Moldova
National Association of Research and Educational E-Infrastructures,
Russia
Society for Development of Scientific Cooperation, Tajikistan
Turkmenistan Ylymlar Akademiyasy, Turkmenistan
Agency of European Innovations, Ukraine
Institute of Mathematics under National University of Uzbekistan
by Mirzo Ulugbek, Uzbekistan
Background
The Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) ICT cluster was an
initiative supported by the European Commission under the
Information and Communication Technologies Theme in 20082011.
It aimed at enabling:
exploration of new opportunities for ICT R&D collaboration
among researchers from the EU and the EECA countries
diffusion of information about research activities under FP7-ICT.
The EECA cluster was the joint effort of 3 complementary FP7ICT support actions ISTOK-SOYUZ, SCUBE-ICT and EXTEND.
Find more: http://www.eeca-ict.eu/about/the-eeca-cluster/
about-the-cluster
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Goal and Objectives
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Reinforced strategic partnerships with the EECA countries
and international dimension of the EU ICT research
programme
Enrich and support the
policy
dialogue
between EU and EECA
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Strengthen
strategic
partnerships between
EU
and
EECA
organizations
Facilitate interactions
between EU and EECA
ICT communities
Specific objective 1:
To enrich and support the policy dialogue between EU and EECA countries, by
updating and reinforcing points for convergence of the EU and EECA ICT
research and relevant international initiatives and activities; by developing
recommendations and roadmap, and by implementing pilot actions and
exchanging experience and lessons learnt
Activities:
 Update the ICT research priorities for
cooperation;
 Explore the opportunities for creation of common
EU-EECA research agenda;
 Provide a map of the existing policy instruments;
 Prepare the basis for the support to policy
dialogue;
 Explore the existing policy instruments between
EU and other countries;
 Make a benchmarking and to identify the
existing best practices in the policy dialogue
activities and instruments;
 Present and validate the project findings at the
Round Table , collect feedback from competent
stakeholders;
 Provide a Roadmap for EU-EECA policy
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Expected outcomes:
An Updated report of the ICT
research priorities;
An overview of the existing policy
dialogue in the EECA countries,
including Benchmarking with other
countries (e.g. India and Brazil),
having
established
the
policy
dialogue;
A Round Table with key ICT
stakeholders;
A Roadmap for EU-EECA ICT policy
dialogue with recommendations
Specific objective 2:
To strengthen strategic partnerships between European and EECA
ICT organizations, through stronger involvement of diaspora
Activities:
Implement Pilot projects, supporting
policy dialogue in the groups of countries;
Analyze the access opportunities for EU
researchers to integrate the EECA
programmes;
Provide support to concrete cooperation
initiatives, such as recommendations to
coordinated calls, analysis of the
possibilities for creation of technology
platforms in the EECA countries and support
to the responsible parties, support for
ratification of bilateral cooperation
agreements and by addressing the EECA
diaspora in Europe in order to facilitate the
establishment of partnerships
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Expected outcomes:
 Pilot projects per group of
countries implemented;
 Report on the access
opportunities for EU
researchers in the EECA
countries provided;
 Support provided for the
strengthening of the concrete
cooperation initiatives
Specific objective 3:
To facilitate interactions between EU and EECA ICT communities through
organizations of joint events, and facilitate preparation of joint EU-EECA R&D
initiatives
Activities:
Expected outcomes:
Set up the three Working Groups,
animate them and organize ten meetings;
Organize two thematic workshops on
Components, computing systems and
networks, as well as on Content
technologies
and
information
management;
Organize an International Policy Dialogue
Meeting, involving all the EU-EECA policy
dialogue stakeholders, having been in touch
with the project;
Design and implement an awareness
raising and dissemination campaign,
covering the EU and the EECA region
3 meetings of the 3 Working groups;
3 thematic workshops, with particular
focus on Components, computing
systems
and
networks,
Content
technologies
and
information
management and ICT Policy, related to
working group’s meetings;
 International Policy dialogue meeting
with particular focus to the lessons
learnt, good practices and the next
steps;
 4 newsletters, 4 articles, web portal &
successful awareness raising campaign
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Project Overview
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EU-EECA Gateway for ICT
Research, Development and Policy Dialog
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Contacts
Coordinator:
Svetlana Klessova
inno TSD SA
Place Joseph Bermond
Ophira 1 – BP 63
06902 Sophia Antipolis
Cedex France
www.inno-group.com
Tel +33 4 92 38 84 26
Fax +33 4 93 65 41 35
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Partner in Belarus:
Dr Tatyana Lyadnova
Belarusian Institute of System Analysis
and Information Support of Scientific
and Technical Sphere
7, Pobediteley ave., off. 1013
220004 Minsk
BELARUS
Tel +375 17 2031016
Fax +375 17 2033139
e-mail: tlyadnova@fp7-nip.org.by
http://belisa.org.by,
http://fp7-nip.org.by